Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-06-21
CHANGES OF THE EAR.
Few Features More Distinctly Besutifal.
The Ear Of Old Age.

Few Features More Distinctly Beautiful
The Ear Of Old Age.
A curious proposition has been made
by the chief Of police Of one Of the large
European cities that photographs Of
criminals should be taken, not with the
full face. as now, but with the side face
in view. using the ear especially, dther
features changing with the course Of
time-a mouth falling. an eye sinking.
nose projecting. brow growing promi-
nent, q cheek either baggy or hollow, Q
chin either pointed or doubling-but an
ear always remaining unchanged into Old
age, and no two ears being alike; 50 that
a thief would be known by his ear -
long as there was anything left Of him.
This would seem TO involve singular
error on the part Of those who follow
such hasty advice. 10 organ. any Close
observer will declare. changes shape more
than the ear docs. Even the piercing Of
the lobe for earrings will often pull it
down and initiate il so as to work complets
Transformation there; and anybody who
has a equity acquaintance may See the
change wrought in the ears by the chaiky
Jumps and concretions under the skin that
never fail TO show themselves there, that
sometimes attain the size of the curious
little notch seen in the upper edge Of
many ears, and said by those who have
faith in the intricacies Of evolution to be
the remnant Of the ancestral ear Of the
last apish progenitor.
Few features Of the human body are
more distinctly beautiful than the ear
when ii is a beautiful ear; that is to say,
when it is rosy and little, and 80 thin that
the blood CLOVIS behind it like flame.
No sea shell with It's myriad delicate
whorls, with its pink and white. with its
polish and brittle daintiness, is half 90
lovely, for no sea shell, after all, is alive
when we see il. or when il has reached
that stage of beauty. But the ear in its
perfection has the white throat beneath
it, the clustering hair above 1t. the dam
ask cheek beside it, and is set on and
heightened In every line and tint by its sur
roundings, and as often o. not has the eye
of the beholder fastened 10 ii on the point
of a quivering jewel glittering in IL. Yet
let the ear be ever so small and curly-a
bit OF Transparency in the young girl
hers will Be very exceptional case II.
when she has attained the age that makes
caps advisable, she is not glad Of the cap
TO hide large fat piece Of cartilage On
either side Of her head-not the least dis
agreeable Of the disagreeable things that
have come TO her a. warnings and evil
dences Of the end Of all things.
This Is not the case with every person.
Of course; enough people to prove the
rule retain a sufficient shape 10 the eaz
into old age; but by far the greater num-
Der OF ears cease TO be objects on which
the eye Of another ears TO linger, and
become objects which make every com
temporary put up hand 10 zee II his own
ears have turned into flaps Of elephantiss
proportions. As Iife goes ON. every year
uncurls and straightens out the prstfy
whoik Of most ears, and hattena snd
seems so TO enlarge, the upper and outer
edge, perhaps not through growth. n0
even through the daily wiping Of ~
part, % much o. through the los of fne
In the tissues and the falling away q
neighboring roundnss snd plumpnso;
the one rendering ths cartilage smooth.
the other making !: som larger than q =
by comparison. In either event, the cer
Of the criminal a to-day viii hardly b
the same ear 70 appsannce ten ycnr1
from to-day-wfIl b very difersnf e.
IN twenty yssnL The ears of sadu,y
persons tell ths sad tile 10 any who ozrl
70 scrusinie them In sulzicint uumhsr d
Reneralse nom what b sesn; snd any
ns who chooses may rsgrrtfuny wn1uh
TIE process, n time passes, which irans'
fprnp one of the choicesf fsuhuvs 4
esysicsl charm n into o'rsf II usiis's.-